Foreign News: In Honored Memory

The most respected cat in all Britain was a small, black, white-bibbed
torn named Simon. As ship's cat on board the sloop H.M.S. Amethyst on
her heroic voyage down China's Yangtze River last spring (TIME, May 2),
Simon got his white whiskers singed by a Communist shell, his face and
legs scratched by shrapnel. But throughout the Amethyst's cruise, Simon
carried on in his billet, caught at least one mouse every day.

When the Amethyst got back to England, Simon was interned for the
regulation six months' quarantine required of animals entering the
country, but his grateful nation had not forgotten him....